
Musk, ex-EU tech chief Breton spar over Germany
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Jan 11, 2025 - Elon Musk escalated a spat Saturday with the ex-EU digital chief Thierry Breton, describing him as a tyrant of Europe as the two men traded barbs online.
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Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Jan 11, 2025 - Elon Musk escalated a spat Saturday with the ex-EU digital chief Thierry Breton, describing him as a tyrant of Europe as the two men traded barbs online.
Jan 11, 2025

Beijing (AFP) Jan 11, 2025 - British finance minister Rachel Reeves began a visit to China on Saturday, seeking to revive dialogue with the world's number two economy as UK borrowing costs soar.
Jan 11, 2025

Beijing (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - British finance minister Rachel Reeves will begin a visit to China on Saturday, seeking to revive dialogue with the world's number two economy in the shadow of financial tumult back home.
Jan 10, 2025

Tokyo (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - Shares in the owner of Japanese fashion giant Uniqlo fell almost seven percent on Friday after the company reported a weak quarterly performance in China.
Jan 10, 2025

Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - Israel struck Huthi targets in Yemen on Friday, including a power station and coastal ports, in response to missile and drone launches, as it warned it would hunt down the group's leaders.
Jan 10, 2025

Washington (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - The US Supreme Court appeared likely on Friday to uphold a law that would force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the wildly popular online video-sharing platform or shut it down.
Jan 10, 2025

Paris (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - Media outlets around the world have been left scratching their heads over the future of their fact-checking operations after Meta's shock announcement that it will halt its US programme.
Jan 10, 2025

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2025 - Rocket Lab National Security LLC (Rocket Lab or the Company), a global leader in launch services and space systems, has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Space D
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Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - Ukraine hit a Russian ammo depot and drone storage facility in a drone and missile attack in the early hours of Friday, a Ukrainian security source said.
Jan 10, 2025

Tehran (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - Iranian state TV on Friday showed the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps touring an underground missile base used in an attack against Israel, hours after fighters marched through Tehran.
Jan 10, 2025

Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - Equities fell again in Asia on Friday as traders prepared for the release of US jobs data that could play a key role in the Federal Reserve's decision-making on interest rate, with several officials indicating the cutting has finished for now.
Jan 10, 2025

Sharya, Iraq (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves from Iraq into Syria during their reign of terror.
Jan 10, 2025

Beijing (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - Beijing warned Germany on Friday to stop hyping up spying risks a day after prosecutors there charged three people suspected of supplying technological information to Chinese intelligence.
Jan 10, 2025

Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - Equities fell Friday as traders prepared for the release of US jobs data that could play a key role in the Federal Reserve's decision-making on interest rates, with several officials indicating the cutting has finished for now.
Jan 10, 2025

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2025 - Maxar Intelligence has secured a euro 13.6M ($14.4M) framework contract with the Netherlands Ministry of Defence (MoD) to deliver geospatial solutions over the next four years. This agreement grant
Jan 10, 2025

Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 - Brazil closed 2024 with annual inflation at 4.83 percent, pushed above target by higher food prices after a year in which crops were hard hit by floods and drought, official data showed Friday.
Jan 10, 2025